(With that I killed all life on the thread )
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:08 (six years ago)
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:13 (six years ago)
We’re on attitude hold
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:09 (six years ago)
https://www.deseretnews.com/images/top/main/61881/61881.jpg?width=853&height=450
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:15 (six years ago)
he's on the porch!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:52 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Wqf6gHJk
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:07 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNLZntSdyKE
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:08 (six years ago)
One small blecch for a mayne, one giant steen for a history mayne
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:41 (six years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_5imOMXYAATZgv.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:10 (six years ago)
RIP Chris Kraft?(person with a great real name)
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:20 (six years ago)
? Was fat-fingered misfire of the gas jet
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:21 (six years ago)
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 01:25 (six years ago)
RIP. That was a dude who got things done. There’s a doc on Prime about the Apollo mission control guys and Kraft seemed like the epitome of an oldschool hardass boss. Even in old age he seemed like he still could put a verbal walloping on you if he wanted to.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 02:03 (six years ago)
not long now til splashdown.
currently 17k nautical miles from earth and about to hit 10,000 mph, ten thousand. i guess they have been travelling downhill for 3 days with no wind resistence.
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:43 (six years ago)
same tbh
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:44 (six years ago)
The astronauts donned the BIGs, jumped into the raft, and, as rehearsed, began spraying and scrubbing themselves down with disinfectant.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 15:08 (six years ago)
20k mph
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:23 (six years ago)
Apollo 16's John Young on the perils of digestion in space: pic.twitter.com/BZ7oOMTgV3— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) July 24, 2019
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 25 July 2019 02:21 (six years ago)
I believe there a section of, um, Carrying the Fire devoted to this sort of thing
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:15 (six years ago)
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02320/b4_2320129k.jpg
(just hadn't seen this photo before)
― koogs, Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:23 (six years ago)
get a load of these these nerds, smdh
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:26 (six years ago)
VERB 73
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:16 (six years ago)
OrDSKY, Return to Earth now, please.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:17 (six years ago)
We are live here at the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) on the USS Hornet as President Nixon stands outside the window and jokes with the three astronauts.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:59 (six years ago)
imagine getting back from the moon and the first thing you have to do after splashdown is make small-talk with nixon
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:00 (six years ago)
20 people in the quarantine with them when they got back to the facility. neil had his birthday in there
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4s73HuWD5UTT5XXPxKLpGC-650-80.jpg
― koogs, Thursday, 25 July 2019 15:16 (six years ago)
That picture is great.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 02:42 (six years ago)
Adam West and Neil Armstrong, separated at birth.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 03:42 (six years ago)
Ha, exactly
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 00:20 (six years ago)
Stand by for ullage.
It looks to me, looking out of the hatch, that we are venting something out into space.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:52 (six years ago)
https://i.gifer.com/ObML.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:16 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VRo5MBUXY
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:52 (six years ago)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:22 (six years ago)
Are you a Pod or a MOCR?
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:53 (six years ago)
This story of the too-close Service Module during reentry is, um, sobering. The new book it comes from is pretty well done, from what I have read so far. https://amp.businessinsider.com/classified-apollo-11-anomaly-threatened-to-crash-first-moon-astronauts-2019-6
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:11 (six years ago)
The author conducted new interviews with a few dozen engineers as well as taking a deep dive into the archives. She does a great job of telling new stories from the engineering/ systems perspective as well as more familiar stories, such as the one about Neil Armstrong going back to the office after he bailed out of the LLTV.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:49 (six years ago)
/streetteam
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:50 (six years ago)
https://i1.wp.com/theapollo11.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/apollo-star-list.jpg
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:14 (six years ago)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/07/15/apollo-11-50-year-anniversary/
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:42 (six years ago)
https://wehackthemoon.com/people/ramon-alonso-computer-science
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:47 (six years ago)
Tindallgrams to thread!
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:03 (six years ago)
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-Tindallgrams.html
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:10 (six years ago)
(complete with 1969 paper bikini adverts)
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:40 (six years ago)
RIP Al Worden
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 March 2020 01:03 (six years ago)
I posted this on the obituary thread but it's worth reposting here. I love this story from Al's book
I extended the mass spectrometer on a large boom, trying to sniff out any hint of lunar atmosphere or escaping volcanic gas. Scientists particularly thought that areas of lunar sunrises and sunsets might concentrate stray gases. They would be extremely tenuous, and that is where we ran into trouble. The spectrometer mostly picked up particles that we brought from Earth. We'd strayed clouds of urine along our flight path all the way to the moon, and these urine dumps continued in lunar orbit. My frozen pee is probably sprinkled all over the moon. Add rocket engine exhaust, and it is no wonder our mass spectrometer had trouble finding anything else.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 March 2020 22:23 (six years ago)
Thanks. I remember reading a more academic discussion of the Apollo Missions that was somewhat dismissive of the “nose cone histories” aka the astronaut memoirs. I know Carrying the Fire is supposed to be the best but Al’s book was really good in lots of ways.
― Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 March 2020 00:37 (six years ago)
Folks who have this thread bookmarked should check out RetroSpace HD on YouTube. Lots of vintage footage up there that I haven't seen at all such as this, the Apollo 9 LEM docking sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8R4zc18Kk
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:36 (six years ago)
Not a book & i think it’s been mentioned itt already but if you get a chance I really recommend “For All Mankind”, Ron Moore’s series on Apple+ So much nerdy NASA/Apollo detailINCLUDING: (spoiler) a fkn Sea Dragon launch in the final episode 😃https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:18 (six years ago)
Michael Collins' Carrying The Fire is on sale in the various e-stores for $2.99 right now. Well worth reading,
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 06:23 (five years ago)